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Karthik Nagesan, who owns an IT Consultancy company and hails from Northamptonshire, was fired after seven weeks on the show in 2016.

Writing in his column for Mirror Online , Karthik says the constant shuffling of the teams through the weeks is an attempt to keep his favourites away from trouble - for instance placing candidate Sarah away from Michaela and Joanna in the task leading up to the interviews stage.

Karren Brady, Lord Sugar, Claude Littner (Image: BBC)

Karthik, who once described himself as 'the next billion dollar unicorn', said: "Given Lord Sugar and his army of advisors, any reasonable business plan and any budding entrepreneur can arguably be 'coached and persuaded' to forge a profitable or at least break-even path into the market.